Did you know that two percent of people that use the internet disable javascript in their browser? That's a surprising amount.
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Seriously though funny article with some actual useful tips sprinkled in there (the meta refresh in a no script is one I love β€οΈ) and it is obviously my silly sense of humour π
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More like leave that shitty site and never look back
It makes a huge difference. And it's enabling javascript that is the security vulnerability ;)
Or just leave
But yea, it's sad how many websites need javascript to sow static content. In my opinion, this is primarily a sign that many "web"-developers these days don't understand the technologies they're working with and don't know any better than to write their entire website in JS.
Disagree, js is also used to create cool interactions and effects.
Yes, there are indeed very valid use-cases for JS on static websites.
These use-cases, however, should not be used as an excuse to make a whole website of static content unavailable to a user who wants to opt out of providing websites with access to their processing power because they don't want to audit any website they use for potential crypto-miners.
Who would stop using JavaScript on their static websites because of some conspiration paranoid?
People who aren't massive dicks
This is hilarious :'D
Their (gnu) perspective is highly debatable as it focuses on freedom of code. So if I release my full blown js app under agpl license (which we actually do!) and if I do it for a better good for the public (which we also do!) then their argument is invalid.
Read the entire gnu article. They cover this. What you are doing (releasing your app under agpl) is an example of what they argue should be done. They provide a link near end of article covering how to state license details, etc.
This discussion is about disabling JavaScript and my argument is that if I publish my app via agpl and disclose the source and do some good then there is no reason to disable JavaScript so the argument is not good for why people should disable JavaScript. Our app fulfills all their requirements yet it's a pure JS app.
Lol, I love it. I'm gonna start using these tips in production.
If we don't have JavaScript, we don't have nothing!
Very true. Without javascript, I'm not a web dev.
Yeah no don't do this
In November 2020
heydonworks.comwent the opposite direction β to view the web site you had to disable JavaScript:In truth most visitors wouldn't know how to disable JavaScript even if they wanted to. Which leads us back to:
Sure but some other resources might be nice:
Unrelated but perhaps thought provoking β (Mobile) Apps Must Die (2011):
How is this an accessibility issue? I would even say that disabling js can cause accessibility issues. For example: we use js to generate browser speech synthesis for functional illiterates to be able to read any text.
"bUt ScReEnReAdErS" - yeah no one has them installed because many functional illiterates can't but they know how to open a browser or scan a qr code. With js disabled they would actually have a real disadvantage here.
As recently as 2007 (15 years ago), I was blocking JavaScript on nearly every site I visited because I didn't trust it, didn't understand it.
By 2008 it became my favorite language.
How did you know the number? You made it up? I think it should be way lower than that.
What number?
The two percent
In Germany you have to serve a no javascript Site with an Impressum and contact data. It's a law. But no one does it or control it. I think other contries have similar laws.
Thanks for writing this!